1817 Sale: Sarah Green
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01688
- Source
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Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Page 191
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Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Page 192
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Somerset County Register of Black Children, Book A, Page 191. Somerset County Clerk's Office.
Somerset County Register of Black Children, Book A, Page 192. Somerset County Clerk's Office. - Event Description
- Joseph Annin sold a Black woman named Sarah Green to the Rev. Robert Finley, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. The exact date of the sale is uncertain. It took place sometime before April 1817. A bill of sale for Sarah Green has not been found, but the sale is mentioned in a manumission deed for Sarah Green, which was signed by Robert Finley on 17 April 1817. In that document, Finley noted that he intended to manumit and set free "a woman of colour lately purchased of Joseph Annin."
- Event Type
- Sale
- Date
- 1817
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Location of Event
- Basking Ridge, Bernards
- Following Event
- 1817-04-17 Manumission: Sarah Green
- Primary Participants
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Sarah Green
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04139
Role: Sold Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Joseph Annin
- Robert Finley (1772-1817)
Verbatim description from source:
"negro woman named Sarah wife of a colored man named George Green said Green being a free man / a woman of colour lately purchased of Joseph Annin"George Green
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04138
Role: Mentioned Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Free
Verbatim description from source:
"said Green being a free man"
Comment: husband of Sarah - Additional Participants
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Joseph Annin
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01505
Role: Enslaver, SellerRobert Finley (1772-1817)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01508
Role: Enslaver, Buyer - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker